“Ethical Hacking”- 8 Good Password Cracking Tools For You

Ethical hacking is more of a necessity in times like these. In order to stay well ahead in their game hackers today are using some really sophisticated tools, therefore to stay secure at all times ethical hackers/security experts must also be aware of the right tools to counter any untoward occurrences.

1.RainbowCrack

RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. It crack hashes with rainbow tables. RainbowCrack uses time-memory tradeoff algorithm to crack hashes. It differs from brute force hash crackers.

2.NTAccess

NTAccess can replace the administrator password of a Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista 32-Bit system by rebooting the computer with a special set of boot disks. This is useful if you forgot the administrator password and cannot access the Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista system.

3.NetBIOS Auditing Tool

The intention of this package is to perform various security checks on remote servers running NetBIOS file sharing services.

4.Proactive System Password Recovery

Proactive System Password Recovery (PSPR; formerly known as Advanced Windows Password Recovery) is a program to recover most types of Windows passwords. Other information that could be recovered by AWPR is LSA Secrets; the program also allows to run any programs in other user’s context, show password history hashes, read password hashes from SAM and SYSTEM files, perform brute-force and dictionary attacks on Windows 9x PWL files, and decrypt product ID and CD key for Windows and Microsoft Office installations.

5.Proactive Password Auditor

Proactive Password Auditor helps network administrators to examine the security of their networks by executing an audit of account passwords. By exposing insecure passwords, Proactive Password Auditor demonstrates how secure a network is under attack.

6.Password Safe

Whether the answer is one or hundreds, Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list. With Password Safe all you have to do is create and remember a single “Master Password” of your choice in order to unlock and access your entire user name/password list.

7.Pandora

Pandora is a set of tools for hacking, intruding, and testing the security and insecurity of Novell Netware. It works on versions 4 and 5. Pandora consists of two distinct sets of programs — an “online” version and an”offline” version. Pandora Online is intended to be used for direct attack against a live Netware 4 or 5 server. Pandora Offline is intended to be used for password cracking after you have obtained copies of NDS.

8.ophcrack

Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

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